Invited Lecture:
Land subsidence and subsurface environmental changes in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and possible groundwater management for urban sustainability
Dr. Tomochika Tokunaga is a professor of the Geosphere Environment Systems Laboratory, the Department of Environment Systems, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. From 1997 to 1998, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he conducted both theoretical and experimental analyses on the behavior of anisotropic poro-elastic materials. His interests now include long-term stability of subsurface environments, dynamics of saltwater/freshwater behavior near the coast with respect to both short and long-term climate changes, coupled deformation and fluid flow processes in geological formations, including land subsidence and related geoenvironmental problems.